We are delighted to release our paper exploring how to unlock value from today’s business challenges such as increasing input costs, pricing of externalities, new technologies, customer & shareholder scrutiny, and volatility/uncertainty.

Within the businesses that we have assisted in our years at Booz & Company, Bain & Company, Origin Energy, and now Lavery Pennell, we have found substantial new value available which can create rich returns in tough market conditions.

Almost every day of his childhood, He Xin remembers the skies in his hometown of Shenyang being gray. “If I wore a white shirt to school, by the end of the day it would be brown,” recalls He, who was born in 1974, “and there would be a ring of black soot under the collar.”